Do you believe it could be explained eventually by future discoveries utilizing the scientific method?

This is, by the way, the major weakness with Physicalism as an ontology; the scientific method is a great methodology, but it would be foolish to say "the only things that exist are those described by science" since science is, by its very nature, incomplete and continually evolving. One could say, of course, that the only things that exist are those described by some future perfect physics, but this claim is kind of circular/meaningless.

This issue is known as Hempel's dilemma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hempel's_dilemma

Physics can't even describe consciousness, let alone explain it. It's impossible to describe consciousness without refering to subjective experience.

I am in the same boat, although I don't know if in the future someone can explain consciousness in a better way.

Downvoter: I see you disagree - how would you define consciousness without refering to subjectve experience?

"Many people (including me) believe that consciousness can't be explained with physics."

Yeah, I was trying to make the point that materialism isn't falsifiable, though this may not have been clear.

Sorry, I missed that :)